Merrell Fankhauser on UFOs, books and — oh! — music: Something Else! Interview
A pioneer of instrumental surf music, Fankhauser has become a grand guitar king.
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One Track Mind: Johnny Butler, “Macaroni Dip” (2014)
Earlier this year, outlier saxophonist Johnny Butler made an EP titled Raise It Up, pulling most everything from the pantry and throwing it into a logic board-laden blender. You May Also Like: No related posts.
Billy Sherwood’s new all-star tribute to the Beatles: Something Else! sneak peek
Listen in as Ann Wilson of Heart takes on “Across the Universe” from ‘Let It Be.’
Mud Morganfield + Kim Wilson – For Pops [A Tribute to Muddy Waters] (2014)
The late Muddy Waters is in the blood, soul and heart of Mud Morganfield.
Gimme Five: Overlooked Albums by Bad Company, Genesis, Husker Du, others
Call this one: A Trip to St. Cecilia’s Orphanage for Homeless Albums.
Jon Herington chooses his favorite Steely Dan guitar solo: ‘So melodic, and the sound is fantastic’
“They hired so many amazing players,” he says. But which one was best?
Farmers By Nature – Love And Ghosts (2014)
This improvised music supergroup is truly a democratic musical commune.
‘Two individual artists working together’: Actually, they were never really ‘Hall and Oates’
Turns out, Hall and Oates were hinting at solo careers to come from the first.
The Road Hammers – Wheels (2014)
Forget about the genre this album is supposed – or not supposed – to be.
Something Else! sneak peek: MoeTar, “Regression to the Mean” from Entropy of the Century (2014)
Does a song have to be repetitive and elementary to work? MoeTar says: No.
